%% The MIT License %% Copyright (c) 2010 Alisdair Sullivan %% Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy %% of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal %% in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights %% to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell %% copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is %% furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: %% The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in %% all copies or substantial portions of the Software. %% THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR %% IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, %% FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE %% AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER %% LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, %% OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN %% THE SOFTWARE. %% this module is an example of how to use the raw parser api -module(jsx_parser). -author("alisdairsullivan@yahoo.ca"). -export([decode/1, event/2]). %% export to allow the dirty hack below -export([literal/1, string/1, float/1, integer/1]). %% this is a strict parser, no comments, no naked values and only one key per object. it %% also is not streaming, though it could be modified to parse partial objects/lists. %% event takes two arguments, the result of calling the parser on a json argument (or the %% generator returned by the parser) and a term that holds the erlang representation of %% the json. decode(JSON) -> F = jsx:parser(), try event(F(JSON), []) catch error:badjson -> {error, badjson} end. %% erlang representation is dicts for objects and lists for arrays. event({start_object, Next}, Stack) -> event(Next(), [dict:new()] ++ Stack); event({start_array, Next}, Stack) -> event(Next(), [[]] ++ Stack); event({end_object, Next}, [Object, {key, Key}, Parent|Stack]) when is_tuple(Parent) -> event(Next(), [insert(Key, Object, Parent)] ++ Stack); event({end_array, Next}, [Array, {key, Key}, Parent|Stack]) when is_tuple(Parent) -> event(Next(), [insert(Key, lists:reverse(Array), Parent)] ++ Stack); event({end_object, Next}, [Object, Parent|Stack]) when is_list(Parent) -> event(Next(), [[Object] ++ Parent] ++ Stack); event({end_array, Next}, [Array, Parent|Stack]) when is_list(Parent) -> event(Next(), [[lists:reverse(Array)] ++ Parent] ++ Stack); %% special cases for closing the root objects event({end_object, Next}, [Object]) -> event(Next(), [Object]); event({end_array, Next}, [Array]) -> event(Next(), [lists:reverse(Array)]); %% keys are just pushed onto the stack until their corresponding value is %% encountered event({{key, Key}, Next}, [Stack]) -> event(Next(), [{key, Key}] ++ Stack); %% reject values that aren't wrapped by an array or object event({{_Type, _Value}, _Next}, []) -> {error, badjson}; %% this is kind of a dirty hack, but erlang will interpret atoms when applied to (Args) %% as a function. so naming our formatting functions string, integer, float and literal will %% allow the following shortcut event({{Type, Value}, Next}, [{key, Key}, Object|Stack]) -> event(Next(), [insert(Key, ?MODULE:Type(Value), Object)] ++ Stack); event({{Type, Value}, Next}, [Array|Stack]) when is_list(Array) -> event(Next(), [[?MODULE:Type(Value)] ++ Array] ++ Stack); event({end_json, _}, [Stack]) -> Stack. %% we're restricting keys to one occurence per object, as the spec implies. insert(Key, Val, Dict) -> case dict:is_key(Key, Dict) of false -> dict:store(Key, Val, Dict) ; true -> erlang:error(badjson) end. %% strings and literals we just return with no post-processing, numbers we convert %% from strings to integers/floats as appropriate string(String) -> String. integer(Number) -> list_to_integer(Number). float(Number) -> list_to_float(Number). literal(Literal) -> Literal.